La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1867 – Antique Map Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique map captures La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1867 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of the city of La Crosse, Wisconsin 1867
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La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1867
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La Crosse, Wisconsin, in 1867 sat where the Black and La Crosse rivers meet the Mississippi, squeezed between the water and the bluffs on the Wisconsin shore. Its fortunes rested on the lumber trade, as pine logs cut far upriver floated down the Mississippi to sawmills and booms along the waterfront. Steamboats loaded grain, flour and lumber at the levee, and the railroad that reached the town in the late 1850s tied it to Milwaukee and the wider Midwest. German and Norwegian immigrants made up a large share of the population, and their churches, breweries and shops filled the streets climbing the bluffs. A town recorded at this moment was still young, confident that river and rail would carry its growth.
| Created / published | 1867 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of La Crosse, Wisconsin, drawn in 1867. Bird's-eye view maps were drawn by travelling artists who walked a town street by street, sketching every building from an imagined vantage point in the air, then sold the finished lithograph door to door by subscription. Roughly five thousand American towns were recorded this way between the 1860s and the 1920s, and for many of them the panoramic map is the most complete picture of the place that survives. Reproduced from the original in the Library of Congress collections. Printed to order on archival paper. Free shipping on all US orders. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Wisconsin |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,944 × 6,992 px · prints to 30 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of the city of La Crosse, Wisconsin 1867 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491391 |
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